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Local TV Is Cross-Platform

Our Viewers, Your Consumers

It’s a new era of local broadcast media opportunities that deliver advertising messages to the right people, at the right time. Every day we’re connecting advertisers to the right consumers — at home or on-the-go, through quality digital programming, highly-targeted online content, and unique community sponsorships. Local broadcast media offers integrated, cross-platform advertising solutions for today and the future.

Digital Broadcast Channels

The powerful reach of Local Broadcast has the potential to connect advertisers to 100% of TV households in a given market. In addition to quality network-affiliated programming, local programming such as award-winning local news, community outreach, and digital niche genres offer unique targeting opportunities.

The digital transition of 2009 opened up subfrequencies for broadcasters to utilize on the digital spectrum. Today, stations provide a growing array of specialized content on these subchannels, from lifestyle content on such diginets as Live Well, to retro programming on Antenna TV, to content that serves the particular needs of a specific community with locally relevant content. Markets with high concentrations of ethnic populations can deliver content geared towards them, like BIZ TV (Latino small business owners) or Bounce (African Americans). Other hyper-local diginets also deliver interest-specific content, like Pegasus, a subchannel “dedicated to equestrian pursuits and country lifestyles.”

Consumers make purchases where they live, work and play. TV stations’mobile ad opportunities connect advertisers to consumers wherever they are, driving them to local services and retail establishments. A mobile ad component can effectively dovetail any on-air and online campaign.

Mobile DTV. Broadcasting on-air signals direct to mobile devices is currently in test markets. Programming, along with on-air ads, will be broadcast to mobile devices with additional opportunities for interstitial ad inserts.

Out-of-Home

Local Broadcast can offer advertisers ways to extend their message throughout the day as consumers are out making purchasing decisions. Out-of-Home broadcasting is part of an integrated media plan that maximizes broad reach with hyper-local addressability.

College campuses

Taxi cabs

Commuter buses

Gas stations

Community

Local Broadcast stations connect with communities in ways that national media cannot. Consumers trust and engage with local news anchors as a part of their daily lives. Community outreach is an essential part of what Local TV stations do every day. Advertisers have unique opportunities to partner with Local stations as an extension of their public outreach and cause-marketing campaigns.